# GitHub Signals: catch founders at day zero | Lighthouse

> Lighthouse now watches GitHub for the two moments that matter: someone quietly starting to build, and someone committing to a brand new company. Nothing to set up.

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# GitHub Signals: catch founders at day zero

Lighthouse now reads GitHub for you. It watches technical profiles for two moments: someone quietly starting to build, and someone starting to commit to a brand new company. Each signal lands in your feed, matched to the real person and company in your CRM.
Jacopo Bonfiglio - Co-founder @ Lighthouse

Developers announce with code long before they announce on LinkedIn. The first commits to something new, the first pushes under a company that does not exist on paper yet: by the time a founder updates their headline, they have usually been building for months.
Lighthouse now watches for that. Here's what's new:

- New Two moments on every technical profile Lighthouse reads GitHub for you. It watches technical profiles for the two moments that matter: someone quietly starting to build, and someone starting to commit to a brand new company. Each one lands in your feed as a signal, so the founders show up while the company is still day zero.
- New Matched to the real person and company Every signal is resolved against your CRM, so it arrives attached to the actual person and company rather than a username. It comes enriched with the role, the founding date, and their background, so you can judge it without opening a second tab.
- New Nothing to set up, no watchlists to maintain There is no configuration step and no list of accounts to keep current. GitHub Signals run on their own and land in the feed you already read.

## Why this matters

By the time a founder changes their LinkedIn headline, the round is usually half done. Code comes first. A strong engineer starts pushing to something of their own, then the commits move under a company with no website and no announcement behind it. That is the window where an intro is still cheap and a conversation is still early.
GitHub is the best public record of that window, and almost nobody watches it well. Doing it by hand means keeping watchlists of usernames current, checking them, and then working out which handle belongs to which person in your pipeline. Lighthouse does that resolution for you, so what reaches you is not a raw commit feed but a founder, a company, and a date.
Because it runs off activity the developer is already generating, it stays current without anyone maintaining it. No watchlist goes stale, and nothing is missed because the person who was tracking it went on holiday.
GitHub Signals are live for every workspace. [Open Lighthouse](https://app.trylighthouse.vc) and check your feed, or [book a demo](https://trylighthouse.vc/book-a-demo) to see it in action.

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